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from June 13, 2018

A roadmap that reveals the highways, byways, ley lines and subterranean tunnels connecting rock, soul, pop, folk rock, R&B, garage, punk, funk, jazz, world music, and soundtracks from the twilight of the 1950s to the dawn of the 1970s. Larry Grogan is a DJ, writer, podcaster, collector, and the man behind Funky16Corners.

Wed. 6/13/18 10:10pm
Franco Twinkie:
Once some doofus said to me;"Arn't the Cowsills kinda like The Osmonds?" I guess he thought all family bands were extruded from the same hose (think of The King Family) I love these guys! And girl(s)

Wed. 6/13/18 10:15pm
Franco Twinkie:
i know Susan is still out there - she just did a Buffalo Springfield tribute thingy here a couple months ago, but what about the others?

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Wed. 6/13/18 10:15pm
coelacanth∅:
i liked the rain the park and other things ("flowers in her hair" as i knew it) as a child then made fun of it as a punkrocker with a deranged version in a sound collage...now i like it again
chresti you know this song.

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Wed. 6/13/18 10:16pm
Funky16Corners:
The Cowsills, with Susan and two of the brothers are out on tour this summer with the Happy Together tour

Wed. 6/13/18 11:28pm
Franco Twinkie:
Well, my sister and I started watching All My Children as bored teenagers in the summer of 1971. Later, when we left home, my mother had become addicted, and she kept up on the shennagins of Erica and the others. (remember Jesse?)

Wed. 6/13/18 11:35pm
Dean:
Seems The Cowsills encountered a bit of controversy with the Remo Capra tune. Evidently, The Beatles' "Ballad of John and Yoko" was at risk of being banned, and for some reason so was the Cowsills' tune for being "offensive" or "blasphemous."

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Wed. 6/13/18 11:35pm
coelacanth∅:
i like it; though the early, quartet stuff may be more my cuppa.

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Wed. 6/13/18 11:36pm
Funky16Corners:
@Dean - I did not know that! I can see why.

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Wed. 6/13/18 11:38pm
Funky16Corners:
Wow! I just looked and that song charted Top 40 in a bunch of markets! I'm shocked.

Wed. 6/13/18 11:38pm
Dean:
This was reported in the June 28, 1969, Billboard. Remo appears many times in the press, especially around 1960.

Wed. 6/13/18 11:42pm
Dean:
I don't, but I have access to databases that report one way or another on him.

Wed. 6/13/18 11:42pm
rw:
Hey FT! Yeah, I normally try to do a bike ride in the afternoon if I'm working from home but ditched it to have a a few beers with a couple friends instead. It was nice but now I feel a little like a slug.

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Wed. 6/13/18 11:43pm
Funky16Corners:
It was humid AF in NJ today. It's OK though, it'll be over in October.

Wed. 6/13/18 11:43pm
Franco Twinkie:
Okay, time to come clean. with the exception of the top hits, I never heard any of this stuff in real time. And been the budding music snob that I was, I would have hated it if I did. Time changes every thing.

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Wed. 6/13/18 11:45pm
Funky16Corners:
I think with a lot of the harmony pop, if the sound hits you in your pleasure centers (as it does to me) you seek it out in all forms, following it down all kinds of dark, unexplored alleys.

Wed. 6/13/18 11:48pm
Dean:
Disc magazine, July 9, 1960: "Remo Capra, new singer on the Columbia label, is billed as 'The Romantic Debonair.' Remo, who works by day as a supervisor for an excavation company, makes his bow with 'Just Say I Love Her' and 'Fools Rush In.'"

Wed. 6/13/18 11:49pm
Dean:
(I was just one year old at the time that Disc review appeared.)

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Wed. 6/13/18 11:50pm
Funky16Corners:
@Dean - I think it's the same guy as the crooner. How he ended up writing an apocalyptic song, I have no idea

Wed. 6/13/18 11:50pm
Franco Twinkie:
The early '70's were a very divisive time in pop music. I was fifteen in 1971 and could only concern myself with what was counter culture approved. In retrospect I missed alot.